METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING PACKET IN WIRELESS NETWORK

摘要

An apparatus for transmitting a packet in a wireless network includes: a delay time calculator for calculating an expected delay time to a destination based on the number of hops for a received packet to be transmitted to the destination and a channel access time; and a packet processor for discarding the received packet or inserting the received packet into a transmission queue according to a result of a comparison made between the expected delay time and a preset allowable value. The delay time calculator calculates the number of hops by a routing protocol used in the apparatus or by an analysis of a header portion of the received packet.